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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Analogies and Vocabulary With the Stick Around App

We have been preparing all week for our final meet in the 2014-15 WordMasters Challenge competition scheduled for next week. The WordMasters Challenge is a vocabulary competition based on completing analogies. Analogies involve higher order thinking skills which is based on logic and reason. We have been working on analogies and higher level thinking all year.

We decided to try something new to prepare for the meet! Students worked collaboratively and chose sixteen words expected to be part the WordMasters Challenge. They looked up the definitions of the words and created a puzzle using an iPad app called Stick Around to learn the meanings of their words.

The first step of this project was watching a few tutorials to learn how to create the puzzle using the Stick Around App, then students started exploring and creating.

As a class we tweeted the app creator, Tony Vincent and the app itself and a few students were really excited when we got retweeted right away!

The goal of the student created puzzles was to drag the correct definition to the vocabulary word. Then, students were able to self-check their answers to see if they were correct and fix any errors if necessary.

Students enjoyed creating the puzzle but LOVED playing puzzles created by other teams.

The Stick Around app was a really fun way for us to prepare for our final WordMasters meet.

The WordMasters Challenge is a cumulative competition so scores from this last meet will be added to previous scores to determine our final winners! It has been a tight competition so this last meet will be critical. Keep studying and practicing!